Tinkered Shield Quotes & Sayings

What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?
Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment. — Suzanne Palmieri

Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor. — John W. Miller

Might call it a great passion. When the true name of what we're dealing with is greed, or lust. We all have the special talent of believing in a falsehood, and believing it devoutly, when we want it to be true. — Barbara Kingsolver

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. — Henry David Thoreau

throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They — J.K. Rowling

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not. — Brenda Hillman

Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when I realise that what I am reading is just what I was about to say. It is a moment of jealousy and disappointment, as if the occasion had been stolen from me, but it is a moment of excitement, too -- because I think I would like to try and say it better, because now the monologue in my mind has become dialogue. My immediate impulse is to write something, anything, notes to tell me the significance of what I have read, an appreciative letter to the author, the first sentences in a preface to a book that will never be written. Th archives of my readings are monumentally high. I can never let these erotic moments go. They are the paper trail of my mind. — Greg Dening

Blessing is essentially the transformative experience of knowing and honoring God as the Giver; it means valuing the steady flow that sustains the world even above the gift of life that each of us receives and is in time constrained to relinquish. — Ellen F. Davis

When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything. — Simon Sinek

A secret's safest hiding place is in the open. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends. — Glen Mazzara